Title :
Statistical software testing using economic exposure assessments
Author_Institution :
Coll. of bus. & Econ., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA
fDate :
9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A systematic and objective method is presented to test software statistically, using the expected operational economic loss due to failure resulting from faults encountered in different parts of the software. A testing probability distribution is derived that will maximise the selection of test input stimuli that have the highest potential failure consequence
Keywords :
probability; program testing; software cost estimation; software fault tolerance; statistical analysis; economic exposure assessments; expected operational economic loss; software failure; statistical software testing; test input stimuli selection; testing probability distribution;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering Journal
